Mona Lisa Reproduce!

the birthrate among Wellesley students is kind of pitiful

Hard at Work

North End

allo

North End

ORDER YOUR FRESHKILLED GOAT!

North end

Tea Partay

George or Paul?

The debate rages! or, not...

Red Velvet

Frosting was amazinnnggg
@ Sweet

Sweet on Comm Ave

I got the red velvet, rfiske had the apple pie

How to beat a child the Right and Proper way

Part of a proper education

Tiny Turtle next to Soyjoy for reference

Tiny!

Tiny Turtle

On the way to the Obs

Moonmoonmooncake

Rose-flavoured red bean!

ahhhh cheese

Thanks MMG Partners! (and yzhou, of course)

chichichichichi

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Marshmallow

Swine Flu Shun!

"The ill student should be wearing a mask when she opens the door. Tell her you will leave the food on a table or other surface near her door, keeping a "social distance" of approximately six feet. Do not hand the box directly to the student."

"How to boil water 101"

Why today was awesome

7 hours of sleep
Beasting class presentation and participation with ridiculously minimal (marginal, even) preparation
Cheesecake
Art Library getting rid of my $400.00 in fines
Wine and Cheese
Enough quarters for laundry
90s Music

How we Kowtow (Prof Joseph)

I'm just going to collapse tomorrow night, if not sooner

Mehhh, still very very behind~

Bingsooooooo

@ that place

Frozen Yogurt with Strawberry

@ that bakery/pc cafe thing near Colors

Soondubu

@ Colors

so goooood

eel stone bibimbap @ Colors

a saddle...?

Multiiiiii (I kind of see it, but not really)

Commencement Ceremony

The day our stuff got jacked in Shanghai

So, at the start of August I take a weekend to visit yzhou. On the day that I go visit the mini-propaganda museum in the basement of an apartment complex with a friend from high school, however, my phone gets jacked. We carry on a bit. A few hours later, my friend's wallet, complete with cash, atm cards, credit cards, student IDs, driver's license, and the like, get pickpocketed from her bag while were at the Bund. Hélas.



We sought out a policeman and here are a few lovely pictures from the drive over to the police station in a paddywagon.





a clearer view of the locked part in the back for criminals (no, we were sadly not allowed in there)





Shanghai, mind you, is not all roughness. A few pictures from the previous night:

Takeshi Kaneshiro sighting in Hong Kong!

My brother's apartment is awesomely close to this billboard

The 狐臭: On Body Odor and Mate Selection

A brunch discussion with my parents on one of my aunts' obsessions with critiquing the attractiveness of everyone else, as vain people are wont, that turned into one about which people on which sides of the family are attractive--my eldest paternal aunt and my maternal grandmother, apparently--eventually turned into my father reflecting on how people choose marriage partners as he drove me back to Wellesley. (This particular aunt had made the peculiar and generally disapproved of choice to marry her first cousin, a paternal uncle of mine. Thus, she often inspires topics of genetics [is that why the son isn't too bright?], attractiveness and notable personalities when she comes up in discussions.)

Father: ...when I was sent to the countryside, I learned that the farmers had a few major taboos on marriage. One was diseases. You know...sexually transmitted diseases...Another was 狐臭.
Me: Eh?
F: Huchou, you know, "body odor" (he said that bit in English). Pure Chinese people won't have it so you can tell who has a little "Turk" in them. The village neighboring the one I was staying at was known for having daughters with really white skin. And of course, if your daughters have white skin, people are definitely going to come and try to marry them. But they also had the 狐臭. The white skin probably came from having some Uighur blood in them, which is also where the 狐臭 came from.
Me: huh.
F: You've got to be careful of that stuff. It's spread matrilineally, you know. No one could take the risk of having children with the 狐臭. Similarly, there was this one farmer, his family were carriers of that sexual disease that Columbus brought back. He managed to finally get a wife by doing a sister swap--you marry my sister, I marry yours--with another family. His sister was fine and had many children. The poor girl who married him caught the disease and died within a year. He was alone until he managed to get paired with this "very retarded" (again, en Anglais) girl....